Senior Backend Software Engineer, Fingerprint
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Device intelligence platform for fraud detection
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Device intelligence platform for fraud detection
101-200 employees
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More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower developers to build safe and seamless online services.
Role
Who you are
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of experience in backend development, preferably with exposure to data science
- Extensive experience using large-scale databases like DynamoDB, ScyllaDB, Cassandra, or HBase
- Experience with AWS container technologies like ECS/Fargate
- Experience designing and maintaining scalable public APIs
- Strong knowledge of SQL and experience with databases like DynamoDB, Redis, or Elasticsearch
- Proficiency with general software engineering tools: Git, IDEs, shell scripting, CI/CD
- Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments where you get to work directly with stakeholders with minimal guidance and direction
- Proficient in English for clear communication in a global, remote team
Desirable
- Experience working specifically with Golang
- Previous Experience with queueing and streaming systems (SQS, Kafka)
- Machine learning knowledge may be a plus
- Familiarity with supervised and unsupervised learning methods
- Experience working with machine learning pipelines, model deployment, and performance monitoring
- Understanding of core ML concepts such as feature engineering, model evaluation, and real-time inference
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Identification team. In this role, you will focus on developing, maintaining, and scaling backend services that power our fraud detection solutions
- Your primary responsibility will be building highly performant backend systems and infrastructure that handle large-scale real-time data processing
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you will leverage Software Engineering techniques to build and maintain high traffic systems
- You will collaborate closely with other team members to architect solutions that are reliable, scalable, and efficient
- You will own features from concept to deployment and ensure seamless integration with other components in our platform
- Design, develop, and optimize backend systems for real-time data processing and web services
- Build scalable APIs and backend infrastructure that support millions of requests per day
- Work with cross-functional teams to integrate backend components with other services, ensuring performance and scalability
- Collaborate with the product and engineering teams to improve fraud detection signals
- Conduct debugging, and testing of backend systems to ensure reliability and efficiency
- Drive best practices for backend development and architecture, fostering a culture of continuous improvement
- This role includes participation in a shared on-call rotation. The schedule will be communicated in advance, and we strive to balance coverage equitably while minimizing off-hours disruptions
- Technologies You Will Work With:
- Backend development: Golang (preferred) or equivalent
- Infrastructure: AWS, DynamoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch
Our take
Digital fingerprinting is an essential process in web browsers that tracks the digital address of a device to monitor web activity. This technique facilitates the identification of fraud and spam, as well as warning signs of account takeovers. However, the success of this requires users to accept cookies, a requirement that is easy to avoid.
Fingerprint provides a digital fingerprinting tool that generates a unique identifier of browser activity without requiring the user to accept cookies. The service uses the same WebGL and canvas fingerprinting utilized by existing competitors, but instead of focusing on devices, it identifies web activity. Suspicious activity will result in the identified user being logged in a database, allowing the service to be improved for others.
With this innovative approach, Fingerprint has been able to build up an impressive client roster of over 6000 companies, including 16% of the top 500 websites by traffic. As well as displaying sustained growth through funding rounds, the company has also continued to improve upon its offering - for instance, in Q1 2023 it reported a decrease in iOS false positive and false negative rates by 85%.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2023
$33m
SERIES C
Nov 2021
$32m
SERIES B
Total funding: $77m
Company benefits
- Equity
- Unlimited vacation, with a minimum vacation days target
- Remote-first: we work asynchronously and respect time-zone differences
- MacBook (you get to keep it after 3 years)
- A small team with a lean hierarchy where you can make a real impact in shaping the company
- Company meet-ups once a year (we went to Mexico City in 2023!)
- Smaller group meet-ups throughout the year
- $600 yearly budget that you can spend to learn new stuff
- Personal development: we give you the freedom to grow and experiment, work on open-source projects and try new things and ideas
Company HQ
Little Italy, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Valentin Vasilyev
(CTO)Valentin worked as a Software Engineer for the first 9 years of their career, before Team Lead roles at Evrone and Machinio.com. They left this role in March 2019 to co-found Fingerprint the following month.
Dan Pinto
(CEO)Previously co-founded Machino, where they were CTO, and has experience in Software Engineering.
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